• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world
    19·
    1 day ago

    I bet the owner wanted to build a small house or granny flat and couldn’t get zoning permission… So he found a loophole

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      301·
      2 days ago

      Fucking amazing repurposing of an unusable old sailboat into a really cool kid’s playhouse.

          • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            13 hours ago

            It doesn’t really matter.

            I’m gonna guess that your comment was a little tounge-in-cheek, but for people who don’t really know, if the water is deeper than about an inch and a half, you can drown in it. How well you can swim doesn’t really matter either, because the problem isn’t swimming, the problem is how you ended up in the water in the first place.

            Jumping into the water when you are in the proper attire, and ready for it, is a relatively harmless situation, and even the most mediocre swimmers would have no issue keeping their head above water. Suddenly being in the water, upside-down, wearing pants, shirt and shoes (or even more clothing), is an entirely different situation that is dangerous even to experienced swimmers. Even worse, you may not be all the way in the water, your foot or leg may have been tangled during your fall, so just the top half your body is in the water, and now you need to get almost your entire weight lifted out of the water just to grab a breath.

            This is why lifejackets are essential for any kind of boating. They don’t actually add that much buoancy to you (most people naturally float) but they add bouancy to your chest, and neck to keep your head out of the water if you are incapacitated.

            Having a playhouse boat on a pond, like the picture, is very risky. Unless you are treating it like a real boat, and making sure that your kid treats it like a real boat too, then you are asking for a tragedy.

            • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
              1·
              13 hours ago

              Suddenly being in the water, upside-down, wearing pants, shirt and shoes (or even more clothing), is an entirely different situation that is dangerous even to experienced swimmers.

              Eh…

              If the water is like 2ft deep, being surprised and wearing full clothing still won’t be that big of a deal. Sure, it’s possible to drown in just a few inches of water … but only if you’re unconscious, severely injured, or very very very stupid.

              And, yeah, clothing and surprise can make it a bit harder to swim … but speaking from experience, it’s not that fucking hard. Just last summer, I was in a canoe that overturned in the middle of river rapids, wearing shoes, cargo pants with full pockets, full clothing, even a big sun hat. Completely unexpectedly. And … even in rough, cold, fast flowing water, I was fine. Even managed to keep my hat on. And then swim around to collect some of the gear that had come out of the boat before making my way to the side of the river. On the way to the side of the river, I was not only wearing full clothes and shoes, but also hauling a backpack, a second pair of shoes, and a shopping bag of supplies with me, still in fast-flowing wavy water! I didn’t find it all that much more difficult to swim that way. And I’m a pretty mediocre swimmer. Meanwhile my girlfriend, quite a good swimmer, kept with the boat and dragged it to the side of the river. (Luckily we were already past the part of the rapids with the shallower rocks – that might have been more of a problem.)

              Now, I know I know – it can be dangerous. But I think people here are greatly exaggerating just how dangerous it really is.

              And I really think that if the water is shallow enough for the kids to stand up in and/or the kids know how to swim well, it will be fine. Maybe don’t let really young kids play there without close supervision … but really young kids should probably be closely supervised anyway, no matter where they’re playing.

              • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                4 hours ago

                Now, I know I know – it can be dangerous. But I think people here are greatly exaggerating just how dangerous it really is.

                Drowning is the number 6 leading cause of death for children in the US. It would be number 4 if it weren’t for our fondness of firearms and cars.

                3 children a day drown in the US, that’s not counting the kids that almost drown, and end up with life-altering consequences from it.

                Water is dangerous, hands down. An innocuous mistake around water can lead to your permanent disability or even death in just a few minutes. Treat it with respect.

  • Punkie@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 days ago

    Surprised it’s a sailboat. How deep is that pond to accept a boat with a keel? At least 5-6 feet for clearance that close to the edge. Maybe it has a retractable centerboard, though.

      • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
        2·
        2 days ago

        Probably, although with a bit of imagination I could see a case where this could be real: they’ve made repairs to the boat and want to test it’s keeping water out and so just put it in the dugout instead of hauling it to a proper body of water. Not sure why they’d have the mast up though, unless I guess the mast step or something with the stays was part of the repair being tested.

        • bstix@feddit.dk
          4·
          2 days ago

          I think the right hand side of the picture has a hill in the foreground. The lake continues behind the hill.

          • jj4211@lemmy.world
            1·
            21 hours ago

            Good catch, this could be a little piece of a much more credible larger body of water, we just can’t see the connection from this angle.